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The folks over at IGN FilmForce have posted the first 24 minutes of A SCANNER DARKLY.
There is material here that might not be suitable for 'lil ones...or office environs...so discretion is advised.
KUDOS to IGN for making a High Res version (of so much footage) available. Nice, and well done!
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(as in Philip K, of course...)
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Jul 14, 2006 4:10:59 PM CDT
wow... pretty fucking late this shit was on digg at 8am
by disembarkedone
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yayy
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Does this mean they're pretty freaked out over how this movie is going to do? I mean 20 min of the movie!? So far I don't know a single person that's planning on seeing this. Even PKD fans like myself. I just think it looks like all eye candy without substance. It's a rental as far as I'm concerned.
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Let me sum it up: Bugs on a druggie, Keanu in a people-suit gives exposition, exposition, exposition, exposition, exposition, exposition and exposition. Then waitress titties, then more exposition, exposition, exposition, exposition, then over-acted druggie humor with a bike.
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than sit here and watch the 30 minutes
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Seen it last week in LA. It's pretty out there, animation is unique but not new. Humor and dialogue feels a little forced. The whole plot's kinda dull.
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http://ffmovies.ign.com/filmforce/video/ article/717/717774/ scanner_24mins_070706_flvhigh.flv - just get rid of the spaces and the linky workies. 189 MB.
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Saw this last weekend.... great flick.
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Not just because they are ebing stupid, but because they are so forcefully playing stupid. It's like watching a frat guy do a "retard" voice.
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until you have your own site, don't whine about a few-hour turnaround...if you already saw it, why do you care how long it took to make it here? just complaining for the sake of being negative? way to go, bud!
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A load of animated talking.
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not full of action like Armageddon, right?! I know! why do people keep putting "talking" in movies? explosions are more expensive, but they're so much more fulfilling in an artistic sense...
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Robert Downey jr
Woody Harelson
Winona Rider...wait she is Klepto, not a druggie.
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but if it's good or not I would rather spend a small amount of cash and give my support by seeing the whole film in a cinema rather than just 24 minutes on some shitty streaming media. People quite happily spend their hard-earned on bland crap like 'Cheaper By The Dozen' which in turn gives justification for a sequel but will avoid this just because it looks quirky and thus more bland crap is born!
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Of course she's a druggie. Wasn't prescription medication the defense during her trial? Keanu is the only one who's clean, although you'd never know it. Great film though, Downey is a standout. And fortheloveofgod, you'd prefer another shitbag adaptation like Constantine, right? When the revolution comes you'll be one of the first up against the wall. Basement dweller.
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Guess I'll have to go see it now.
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I mean its like I just saw one third of the movie...There really is not any reason for me to go waist my money now.. I can wait for it to come out on DVD, and by that time I will forget what I just saw. Good job movie studio (The guy who thought this up will be fired).
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I can't believe how many whiners there are here. It's 24 free, uncut minutes of the movie... watch it or don't watch it. I swear, you people would bitch about frame rates if they'd released entire movie for free. I know aicn is known for it's ridiculous talkbacks but this one astounds even me (possibly the most cynical bastard on earth).
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A Keanu Reeves movie I'm looking forward to seeing?!? Now THAT's phenomenal! I'm diggin this artistic film style! Johnny Depp would've fit in fantastically as an addict, ala Fear and Loathing. lol I've gotta see this. Or at least rent it.
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Yes, I can understand how watching an actor pretend to be stupid can be VERY upsetting to someone who's naturally stupid. This film must be such a deep-cutting, personal insult to you. I think you deserve an apology from the entire cast and crew. LOL
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Actually that scene played out almost identical to the book, if I recall correctly. I mean, the whole point is that they are so drug-addled that they can't even figure out something basic like how you calculate the number of "speeds" on an 18-speed bike. I don't think they were doing a poor job of "acting" that out.
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Really Quite Liked It.
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So I can put it on a DVD-R to give to my brother who doesn't have broadband. So he can see it.
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The 18-speed scene was great! Everyone was laughing at the theater. Also the implications of the scramble-suit get stickier as the movie progresses. This was a great movie, I can't wait to see it again. I have read a lot of Dick's work and this is the most faithful adaptation to date
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cheers AICN for the link, i like to come in these talkbacks and chew the fat and bitch about movies like all the rest but why all the negative Posts!? 20 mins of free movie!? I wasn't sure if i should watch this but it's confirmed that the film is going to work. saw the trailer and it got me interest and now after watching that 20 or so minutes I am sold! it flew by and i cant wait to see it on the big screen. it looks like a walking talking headfuck graphic novel and I was laughing out loud at the lunacy of the 18 speed bike debate, it reminded me of my druggy days when a bunch of us would get high all day and have weird adventures of the most mundane kind, so that shits just plain comical if you can relate to it. Everyone even the Neo guy is great and i didn't think anyone was overacting it all works with the comic book look of the film! shit! I don't know people want to watch these days? I'm sick as fuck of remakes and reimaginings and sequels so this looks fresh and fun and worth watching a few times over for all the cool visuals and dialogue, shit! i want to watch the rest now!
Sorry for posting so positively about something here as I know it's not the norm and thanks again for making my day. I will have to look out for waking Life now too. Bring on the mother fucking snakes! -
didn't Aha do this back in the 80's?
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30 minutes of the movie online for free? hahahahaha seriously, either they are begging people to go see this, or they know it's going to flop so they're just doing something random that no other movie has ever done before. The only way to expose a movie to the public and get them to see it is short little clips of the most climactic moments in the film. Not an entire expose!!! Idiots! WAKING LIFE BLOWS GOATS!
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just shut the hell up...its FREE...
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and it was a bit jarring. Before that they were being all clam. Keanu was doing his jaded thing, Freck was scrambled as usual, Barris was being his psychobabble self. Then suddenly "BICYCLES!!!!" All that falling over and stuff? I can't belive Kaunau ended up doing the best acting in that scene. Still, the rest of the film looked ace. Will be seeing this tomorrow.
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I just posted that I am going to see this movie for the 3rd time tomorrow night and I want to explain why. This movie is so much better than most of the crap out there now. And it is very much like the book. If you read the book and liked it, you will like this movie. And why are you all complaining about seeing a bit of it here? so what? why are you even posting on a movie site if you are not interested in seeing something that at least tries to be a good and thoughtful movie experience. This movie asks you to think and try and experience something a bit different. I don't think that is too much to ask but maybe after reading some of the comments here I have to guess it may be too much. All I can say is I am glad Linklater gave it a shot. Well done Rick! and the casting was right on too. Thanks guys. This movie is amazing.
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Even if it's their idea, it's a bad one. 24 minutes is way too much.
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I'll go plunk my $7.50 for another viewing of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. 24 minutes is enough for me to realize I don't wanna waste ANY money on this crap.
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A few years back the first 10 minutes of Mememto were shown on iFilm. In fact, I think they were the first to use this promotional gimmick. There is nothing desperate about this move. If anything, showing the first half hour of A Scanner Darkly only demonstrates the studio's confidence in the film. I don't understand why this movie has so many haters.
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Middle age is typically described as late 40's to mid-50s. We're living longer these days, though, so middle age might fairly be moved up ten years. A person in their 30s is not middle aged.
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Is this the new trend. Like Doom shareware. Give us a huge taste of a film and make us want to see the rest? I like the idea.
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Jul 14, 2006 10:56:51 PM CDT
Duh, they're just trying new ways to get people in...
by iamjack'suserid
theaters. Goddamn these shortened subject lines! Is the idea of new concept so lost to you lot of whiners and complainers? Let me explain it to you. Put down your toy figures/pacifiers and listen. People see the clip, they want to see more, so they go see the fucking movie when it comes out because people naturally have to be completists when it comes to being teased like this. Think of it as an extended trailer, if you can fathom that in between thoughts of playing Pokemon or whatever the latest lame kid fad is.
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Robert Downey Jr. will definately get the kudos he deserves in Hollywood. The animation at first seems pointless but metaphorically, it works for the story. Loved the ending, being in recovery and all...
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He gets a lot of negative attention, but as an actor he is one of the best. Two Girls And A Guy was 3 people in an apartment for 90 minutes and I was entertained mainly because of Downey's performance. He is a very open guy when interviewed. He said his famous director dad (Robert Downey Sr) hated actors and that it was ironic that his son BECAME one. Liklater is also one of the few directors out there that will do a commercial film, then go "artsy" on us. Kudos.
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Can't wait to see it.
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now i use my trusty flv encoder and presto. nice try IGN.
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What a giant piece of shit masterpiece this isn't. The brilliant acting is terribly forced. I've never seen anything so real be so fake. It's gotta be the most unoriginal new idea in a very short time.
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I can't really tell... It was a bit slow.
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http://tinyurl.com/j7l3j
if you need a flv player go here
http://tinyurl.com/qune3
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...now it looks awful. Exposition much, Keanu?
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Im glad there are gutsy independent creators making risky content.
As everyone says "Rodrigues!" I opine that he is artless hack with adequate technical ability. He is the cheap mexican equivalent of George Lucas.
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going for it? seriously...name one thing...
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Average lifespan was in the 70's, perhaps 80+ if you're lucky about 20 years ago. Today the average lifespan is in the 80's, perhaps 90+ if you're lucky. People born today are expected to have a lifespan well into the 100's (about 130, I believe.) Therefore, middle age depends on when you're born. Right now, if you're over 40, you're technically middle age. Before you know it, you won't be middle age until you're 60 and mandatory retirement will have to be extended to around 95. Anyway, these are serious scientific findings. If you'd like, I could try to find ya a site to back it up?
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A story. Need more? I have several. You WERE watching, weren't you? Your attention span doesn't require explosions, large breasts, fast-moving vehicles and kungfu fighting to keep it awake, does it? =P
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Wow, I am in awe of how totally boring and horribly written - oh I am adlibbed - that was. If I want to see actors performing this level of contrived bullshit I will attend acting classes and learn the strausberg method of being on - I mean ACTING like your on drugs. Just curious, do you need to be ON drugs to enjoy this horseshit? That had to be some of the most boring and flat storytelling I have ever seen.
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Wow, I am in awe of how totally boring and horribly written - oh I mean adlibbed - that was. If I want to see actors performing this level of contrived bullshit I will attend acting classes and learn the strausberg method of being on - I mean ACTING like your on drugs. Just curious, do you need to be ON drugs to enjoy this horseshit? That had to be some of the most boring and flat storytelling I have ever seen.
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Brain fart much? =P You basically filled two lines of text with absolutely nothing. Congratulations on successfully suspending reality.
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Average lifespan is currently conservatively estimated at 88 for women, 83 for men. By 2050, it could easily reach 140 in developed countries. http://hrblog.typepad.com/perfect_labor_storm/2005/10/ The data here matches what I had heard recently. (I only can't recall if this was on the news or in school.)
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If you think these actors have to TRY to act like they're on drugs then welcome back from Saturn, bud. How was the 20 year trip?
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if I should watch that. Sure, I'm dying to see the film but I don't live in the US so who knows when I'll get the chance ... It doesn't have a theatrical release date here so my best bet might be waiting for the American DVD release. So, would watching the first half hour just make the wait worse? Decisions, decisions ...
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Something about human cells mean that at about the 50th generation division, the stop dividing further, like some sort of time based self destruction. Each new division has less telomeres that the previous and when some critical level is reached, that generation won't divide again, so the theory goes. So, supposedly that limits us at present to about 120 to 130. Also with lungs as just one thing, over time they always lose elasticity as you get older. Live long enough and you will suffocate because sufficient elasticity will have been lost to enable your lungs to work. Once again, around the 130 year mark. Worth noting that don't smoke, because you can push that number down by up to decades, to an age you can actually realistically live to in this day and age.
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It's fairly sad to see how few geeks out there are actually simultaneously nerds. Dorkiness without intellect is SUCH a waste (and vice versa.) Comic books are great - LOVE 'em! - just every once in awhile try to expand your horizons with something that doesn't have pictures. And then just one last piece of advice: if you don't like Dick, you probably suck. So please don't suck while enjoying the Dick.
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Takes into account nanotechnology and the ability we'll soon have to repair, strengthen & manipulate cells.
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is how sure the idiot haters are that the studio is desperate about the film tanking, when in fact it had the strongest per-screen showing of any limited-release indie flick (on more than 5 screens) since last Decembers's Oscar contenders, and projects to do 25 million or so, which is exactly what Memento did.
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and it was fucking awesome. it was shot in orange county (my home town).seeing the local spots animated was kinda weird. The Radiohead/Thom Yorke score is fucking brilliant. Linklater rules! Radiohead rules!
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Like, under a killing moon. Very cheesy
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The answer to a scanner that scans darkly.
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..Im sorry but that was funny
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The Only Two Ages That Matter are... "FUCKIN", and "NOT FUCKIN". And we all know, some 70 year-olds are fuckin', and some 30 year-olds aren't
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You know, where they used relatively bad animation to tell some "too cool for school" pseudointellectual story. I'll rent it from the local blockbuster...maybe, but I'm really not interested.
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that they'll actually put 20 minutes plus on line for people to watch for free. WB needs a new marketing person and fast
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The guy playing the merged Charles Freck/Jerry Fabin character (the guy who sees "aphids" crawling all over himself & his poor dog) could have maybe toned it down a little. I guess I did once witness someone tweak out pretty much as bad as that, only more realistically. I blame him for coaxing the snide out of the Talkbackers above (which of course is normally very difficult to do). Judicious reduction, though. Do we get the scene where Fabin saves the kid from being crushed under his car, when he still had his act together? Guess I'll see for myself within the next week or two. Man am I loving Downey though. Thanks Merrick, thanks IGN (and thanks Tubbs for the convenient collectable linkage).
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Saw this today, and I was impressed. The most accurate adaptation of a Philip K. Dick book and my second favorite PKD adaptation (second only to Blade Runner, which, although not accurate, felt as if it was one side of a conversation between the film and the book). I recommend it to anyone who wants to see an intelligent movie, and doesn't care that there aren't explosions every five seconds. Hey, guys don't worry, it may not have the Wayans brothers in it, but it's also really funny at times. It's also funny how pissed off people get when a movie actually tries to make them think.
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It took me to see this to want to go see the rest. Looks like a lot of fun.
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I have to say, Robert Downey Jr. is an excellent actor. He really makes it look easy, but his acting is pretty incredible. Just from the 24-minute clip, I wasn't too impressed with Woody ("Look! I'm ACTING!"), but it was good to see Winona back again.
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How can anyone attack this marketing strategy? Movies are one of the few things in life you have to buy sight unseen. This preview is just enough to let you know if it's for you or not. Would seeing the first 20 minutes of THE MATRIX or SPIDERMAN stop you from going to see it on the biggest screen in town? Not to mention, there's so much more to the story. As with all good movies, the last 70 minutes are not just a repetition of the first 20. The story in this film evolves -- give it a try when it finally gets to your town
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Looks I disagree w tih the majority again. The movie was great. Surprisngly funny but by the end of the film pretty deep and penetrating. Downey of course owned. Looks like I completely disagree with you.
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Lets see there was humor, occasionally great acting, and some really powerful twists made. It had those things going it.
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You know its really sad that while not perfect we have a different, orginal film here that explores some pretty relevant ideas and manages to be a goood adaptation of a PKD story. Yet EVEN that cant do anything but bring out the typical everything sucks ACIN attitude.
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But Quint or someone was saying that most of the film was like the bike scene. And the bike scene was like watching a stage actor play drunk. Or like the kid in drama class that uses an cockney accent for every scene. I will say, that up until that point, it did seem pretty interesting.
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after seeing these first 20 minutes youre missing a great movie thats quite heartbreaking. If the animation really bugs you that much than fine although Im fine with it but the content of the film is great. You guys are missing out.
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Anyone watch her interview on IGN.com? Yeesh. Did she get high beforehand, or is she always like that now? Poor girl.
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First off I have to admit that this movie had no chance to be an awesome experience for me. I have been waiting all summer for this movie so when I finally saw it, my own personal hype must have killed the effect a little bit (Just like all you nuts who are obsessing over Snakes on a Plane are going to be soooo let down when it isn't the greatest B movie ever: THERE IS NO WAY THAT FILM CAN LIVE UP TO ITS TITLE!). But it is certainly an interesting film. It is certainly not the thriller the trailer leads you to believe. The first two acts are basically like many other Linklater films: a bunch of stoned people philosophizing about shit. To keep you interested during this you add the confusion as to what the hell is going on with Keanu's character. It is amusing and occasionally funny but not terribly exciting. The mystery of the thing is what pulls you through, but barely. Then the last 20 minutes finally has something the rest of the film has sorely lacked: a plot! But, come on: 90 minutes is a long time to wait before you actually do something cool. So I can see why they animated the film in such a way. They needed to distract the audience from the absence of story. But this laid-back little movie is not bad by any means. It is smart, funny and different and even a little creepy in the end. That is certainly nine bucks well spent in my book. It simply isn't wholly satisfying. It is a LINKLATER sci-fi thriller, which is definitely its own beast. The stoner characters are funny and it looks cool. It certainly pays off. Just don't expect great suspense scenes or to be pinned to your seat, to be shocked and riveted, all that lame-ass hyperbole bad critics toss around. It is amusing and intriguing enough. Shit, if anything you always have something interesting to look at. Check it out. What else were you gonna do, go see You, Me, and Dupree?
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funny you mention that judge. It's probably the most painful thing I've seen this year. I couldn't even finish watching it, I was so embarrassed for her. I hope to god she was high because if not, she should get a catscan immediately.
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not Radiohead. They let a couple of songs be used, though.
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... what's the deal here?
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Wow...I'm glad you posted this. I was actually almost going to see the film in a theater. Netflix, here I come. Looks like it should've been tightened a _lot_. I mean, 5 minutes of the dude picking bugs out of his scalp? Might not've been 5 minutes, but it sure seemed longer than necessary.
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I just couldnt disagree more with people who say its terrible. Did you guys watch Downey Jr. or even see t he brilliant ending. I just dont get it.
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Boring talky rubbish.....
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They had me at that commercial where the guy looks like a big bug. No thanks.
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about the bike scene. After seeing the entire movie, their acting in that scene is just fine. Great movie.
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So, a book written by a druggie, acted out by druggies (by way of someone elses script, but still) is not realistic of druggies. On a fictional drug, I might add. Nice. And the level of ADD among the people commenting is scary; what an intro that doesn
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then there is no hope for you.
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how many people on aintitcool are "smart" but never "applied themselves" in school?
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I was probably not going to see this - "Waking Life" was one of the worst, most pretentious and jejeune pieces of crap semi-literate "philosophy" I'd ever seen - but I guess the animation style works, when overlaid over material written by Dick. I guess if you take the Waking Life style and just don't lay it down over asinine dialogue, it can actually work.
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The reason why its animated in that "style" is because "style" is totally lacking in all the current animated films nowadays. Animation does not have to be realistic or even try to simulate reality... it can also be stylish and expressionistic and druggy, there is a huge american audience that does not get to see enuf expressionistic/stylish blockbuster efforts and we'd love to see more. The movie storyline exists in a different reality then the ones that are normally portayed in blockbuster movies. The whole point of the film is to acknowlege those "other" realities. Lem's Futurlogical Congress ought to be done as an animation one day. I am very glad that it was not live action... Long live the new flesh!!
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I thought it was the funniest, most heartbreaking thing that I'd seen in quite a while. Not for everyone. I feel that if you didn't enjoy it then it wasn't intended for you. I thought the script was wonderful.
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face it, most people aren't intellectual
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Great film ! Saw it last week when it was only playing in select theatres. My observation stands correct -- I didn't expect the majority to understand the animation due to the subject matter. Instead, I read immature responses like going to see a friggin PIRATE movie instead.
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